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I dont know if I've posted this on here before or not but just curious what everyone does for their full-time job. I know some farm but what do you farm? grains? cow calf? little of both?? Milking?? How many arces??
For others what field you in?? I run a muffler shop and farm a bit on the side. Mostly hay for horse people but have just about every farm animal their is, cows, horses, ponys, donkeys, goats, chickens, ducks, pigs, only a few of each. Plus my 5 dogs and a few barn cats.
 
Telephone man by day. I work for the bigun' and it pays the bills, but thats about all I'll say about it. I mostly bale hay, small squares, about 3500 last year, hoping to gain another 1000 or so this year, but thats not set in stone. I use to run a few momma cows, but just didn't have the time and to be honest, especially over the last few years, theres been much more money in selling hay than feeding it. I've been considering maybe buying a few steers along the way and finishing them myself and then selling direct beef off the farm, but that probably won't happen till next year if it does. Other than that I've got a couple of dogs, a cat, and 2 stands of honey bees, one Italian, and one Russian. Small farm....
 
Substitute teacher, retired shrimp boat owner/operator. I was raised on a rice/cattle farm and have always regretted not having been able to continue farming.
 
You happy doing that??? I went to school and got a welding degree but always wanted to go to the school in Texas for under-water welding. Can make big bucks but only for a few years from what I heard.
Ryan
 
Office manager for the State of Illinois. Half owner of 300 acres, that is rented out. Caretaker of 2 barrows and 2 gilts, at least till after the county fair hahhaa
 
Maintenance supervisor, aluminum extrusion plant. Restore and paint tractors and farm equipment on the side.
 
This is my first year out of high school, working with the parents on our dairy farm of 44 cows. We work about 350 acres some of which is cash crop. Plan on staying on the farm and doing tractor repair for area farmers.
 
Self employeed, heavy equipment repair, welding and fabrication, field machine work/line boring, etc, etc. Currently working a second job,pretty much as a millwright, installing luggage conveyors at the Charlotte Airport to keep the bills paid/ The main thing I"m doing though is hoping and praying that my customers businesses will pick back up so I can do some of the work they have been needing done for the past year plus but have neglected due to lack of fund. That work alone would take me through the rest of the year or nearly so......Cross your fingers that it gets better......
 
Program Director, Workforce Division at Eastfield College of Dallas County Community College District.

Hobby farm about 200 acres; raising hay for Nancy's horses and community neighbor's cattle.

Manage "retirement home" for vintage JD tractors and equipment.
 
Plans and operations specialist. Translates to making sure soldiers have everything they need as far as training and facilities so they can concentrate on a war.

Dave
 
Retired but work at - growing cut flowers, restore Farmall Cubs "have 4" - Constable - guide and teacher at a working farm museum - member of the Conservation Commission - operate heave equipment and am on a couple committees for the town.
I'm sure I forgot something.
Perhaps I should just go back to work. :)
 
I am a Firefighter in northern California. The farm is in North Dakota and I grow several hundered acres of wheat and every spring my neighbor and I buy 100 steers or heifers (50% each)and and run them on the grass untill fall. He watches them, fixes fences ect. I also harvest program payments from FSA and NRCS. I knew I was a real farmer when I got my first check from the USDA.
 
Work in a window factory, called marvin windows and doors, not a bad job, i operate moulders and double ends. about all there is to do up in this neck of the woods, manufacturing jobs that is, Polaris is here and arctic cat is not to far from here either. Tractor hobby is just starting though,
 
Engineering Manager. Degree is in Systems Engineering but haven't actual done any hands on engineering in about 20 years - went into managment back then and now manage other engineers. Not the most exciting job in the work but it pays for my hobbies
 
Machine builder and machinst.......Many years turning handles on a bridgeport and lathe.

Its a job that puts fuel in the tractor.
 
Retired Vo-Tech school teacher. There was no money in farming in NE Pa. so I went to Eureka College Ill. Now I farm the home place which has been in the famly since 1847. Still no money in it but we like it. Ed
 
independant trucker, local to reagonal,small hobby farm , this post is interesting, and it also shows why we have so many ot's with this many variables in the forum there is no reason not to take advantage of all that knowledge, help among friends on here, if there is a question, somebody on here does that for a living and can help
 
I own my own company doing architectual millwork. If its made with wood we do it. As far as farming I own the farm I grew up on.I cut some fire wood, grow a few potatoes and putz around with my tractors.
 
That is what I did before I left the Unisys computor co. The company made other things besides computors.I really enjoyed that type of work. Since I retired I have a 13 in SB lathe and a small mill in my garage. I don't know how people get along with out machining knowledge. Stan
 
Which autosupplier?

I used to work for an autosupplier until the Eaton Corp. bought it and wrecked it.

It was called Lectron Products.
 
Was a carbon and stainless welder.Welded titanium at one time.Retired now collect tractors and try to keep the ole lady happy. Hoss
 
Amen to that, I couldnt imagine not having access to a milling machine or a lathe. I guess that since there has always been 1 of each at a minimum at all the places I have worked then it seems priceless to me. I bought my own bridgeport at my new employer 4 years ago. (worked out well)
 
Retired Dairy Farmer and Pharmacist
Do some corn and hay for a hobby
Own a small machine and fabrication shop to
pay for corn and hay hobby
Collect and restore White and Oliver tractors
Own a small farm tractor repair shop to pay
for expenses of collecting and restoring tractors.
 
Retired generator mechanic. Thirty years on the roads through Texas. Now living in a small town in Texas on disability and working when I can.
 
Heavy Equipment Relocation Specialist, er, um,
Trucker, 26 wheeler, Construction and Forestry Equipment, usually in Pennsylvania, from Maryland to New York, Pittsburgh to Harrisburg, sometimes beyond.
 
Retired, owned my own Inspection and Warranty Co. Had 17 employees did it for 25 yrs and now my Son runs it! ...Jim in N M
 
Hey RN, could you send me a email as I have a couple off line questions for you.

T_Bone99 at dedac dot com
 
I have been retired for about 7 years after 39 years in a factory. I started out on the punch press, then assembly work. When the apprentice programs became available I worked for five years as a maintenance mechanic and then went to maintenance electrician.
I grew up on a farm and still play around with my tractors on a small acreage plus I spend a lot of time in my shop repairing and goofing around.
 
Retired Correction Lt. 20 yrs now. My new part time job is Bovine Waste Disposal Specialist.
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Organic farmer and independent organic inspector. Raised pigs for 30 years and exported breeding stock all over the world. Equipment appraiser. Volunteer driver for local seniors. Wish I could collect but the bride would freak.
 
I"m a BRAZER on large A,C, Motors used on Ofshore Oil drilling rigs,, that are water proofed, Larry KF4LKU
 
im disabled and we raise feeder pigs and raise goats and chickens. i do some hay and work for other local farmers during spring planting season
 
Retired toolmaker. I have a 48 Farmall H, and a brandy new Kubota L3400. That working for a living is highly overated!!
 
I'm mostly retired. Make about 3000 small bales of horse hay. Used to do welding/fabricating in my shop, still do some but for others but mostly designing/building ideas I've thought about for years. Making gathering wheels for my baler right now. If they work I won't have to pay someone to rake ahead of me.
 
I'm an instructor at an agricultural college. Run the library and teach irrigation and tractor operation. Here's a link if you want to have a look. I'm in it so you can play Spot the Burnie.
Where I work.
 
So you bought a new Kubota L4300, what did that cost ya?

I have a new (2 year old) Deere 2305, $10,800 with a rear blade and tire chains, I bought a rear mower and a rear bucket for it at TSC.
 
Service Tech for New holland Dealer. We also sell Gleaner combines, Hesston,Vermeer bales,MacDon, Versatile, I have worked for Massey, John Deere, Case, and Allis Chalmers.
 
I drive a county wide transit bus. We are funded by federal and state allacations and local property taxes.We are directed by a 3 man county board appointed commission. Our county is 22 miles square with a population of under 100,000. We provide share a ride transportation door to door for anyone in the county. We haul alot of school age kids from day cares to school and back. We provide rides for seniors and the diabled,physically and mentally. We pick riders up at their door and take them to the door of where they want to go for a fee. Adult fare is $2, seniors or someone with a disability $1 and a child over 4 is $1.50. Ridership annually is over 600,000 for our system of 32 buses and 60 drivers.We are open 7 days a week.
 
College then apprenticed and earned an industrial electrican's inter-provincial ticket.
Nuclear Shift Control Tech with Ontario Power Generation. That's electrical,control and electronic work on nuclear reactors and support equipment.
Also have the top level "Green Badge" to inspect,sample,measure and protect other workers from radiation.
Used to be a qualified fire fighter for 10 years with Captains,high angle rescue, Advanced 1st Aid and hazmat training.Really miss that job.
Have a hobby farm and assist my elderly parents who are still on the century family farm.
 
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Retired Highway Maint. Foreman. Retired at the end of 2005. Work per diem every summer for the same organization.

Grow sweetcorn and field corn which I sell at my home. Currently restoring my 3rd Farmall H.
 
Good One - As I like to know our "friends"

Geotech and materials engineer when I'm not going to v"ball, in the woods or helping the glennster.

Sure wish oldblu would come fix that shifter and pump before Pulling season!

toolz - you got a schedule yet?
 
Olifeild instermention and other oilfeild related stuff in Abilene Tx. Worked 25 years in Ford Tractor dealerships then several for custom hay operater. Have several tractors messing with or parting out.
 
Maintenance Director of one of the largest food condiment companies in the US. Otherwise grew up on a dairy farm and managed a 5000a grain farm for a while had an AC dealership for awhile now have just a AC5020 restored for grins and fun on YT.
 
Retired aircrat propulsion engineer for a big airplane outfit in Seattle whose name I won"t mention. I raised beef cattle on small acreage while I worked and now we have an small irrigated ranch in Montana. I do a lot of volunteer work in my spare time.
 
Self employed doing commerical HVAC and electrical wiring. Hold NC state electrical and heating and air conditioning license. Grew up in Appalachian America on a small farm. There ain't no big farms in Appalachia. DH
 
Ok, I'm working with a 340ft PVC cased 4" bore.
Percussion rotary drilled 6" bore with foam in decomposed granite with a drill rate of 1ft/min.

Drilled 6" with 40ft PVC slotted screen installed.

We hit water at 190ft for 10ft depth then again at 290ft down too 340ft. Typical depth for this area is 340ft too 550ft.

1hp Pump is set at 320ft.

There is fine clay at 340ft to 331ft. I've added 2ft of fine clay by trying to back flush the screen.

Dynamic head is 30ft, was 180ft when first drilled and tested. Tested when first drilled at 10gpm then the bore sat for 2years without being pumped.

Now I can't get .05gpm at the best with back flushing and some times zero/gpm. That leads me to believe that the screen is plugged with fine clay/silt as the well was never developed after the screen was set.

If I pump the bore dry, sometimes it takes several days for the water to return 30ft of dynamic head.

I'm thinking of building a double hydraulic swab to try and clean the screen and surrounding area.

Your thoughts?

T_Bone
 
Deere dealer mechanic for several years. Ran the diesel room there.Farmed full and part time since 1958. Worked on farms for others while in high school.Maintenance in a circuit board factory(part time) for a friend for a few years. Raised a lot of hogs. Remodel work and tile setter(part time) Still farm some and am a pyrotecnic come each July.Restore and repair tractors.Gofer for the wife.Loaf a lot when I can find the time,now.lol.
 
Self-employed Tool & Die Designer, part time hog farmer, part time green house worker (wifes business)
part time Board of Zoning Appeals (township) Volunteer 4-H adviser and Sheep Committee Chairman and full time Dad to a 14 and 10 year old.
 
Foreman/ heavy equipment operator. Farm about 25 acres, corn soybeans wheat and hay.Grew up farming and excavating and still do. Jim
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Soon to be a retired mechanical engineer who collects Farmall tractors and equipment.Looking for a 1953 Farmall Super M to restore after retirement. Used to raise and train Belgian draft horses.
 
Interesting read going through all the posts! CaseIH salesman here. Also handle a dozen or so shortlines, such as Vermeer, Gehl, Landoll, Kinze, Great Plains, Krause, and more. Mechaniced for same company for a dozen before sales. Live on a small farmstead with a few acres to play on. Grew up as a farmer with John Deere, and collect and restore old John Deeres!
 
Formerly mechanical and electrical designer for a grain elevator equipment manufacturer.
Currently doing project management/development for an oil supplier
 
applications engineer for heat transfer systems (how to make hot stuff cold and cold stuff hot). Some rental properties and 37 acres with a few cows and calves on them. Also full time grandfather with six grandkids.
 
Farming, axman, remodeler and offical economic
adviser to THE ONE. I'm better at some jobs then
others. "We are the ones we've been waiting for."
 
Heavy equipment mechanic for 20 yrs for the worlds largest chemical company although mostly forklifts. Good paying job but I'm just a hairs width away from being "outsourced".
 
Retired owner of equipment service, 4 divisons
aout 60 people employed, one trucking company moving heavy equipment 9 trucks, two heavy equipment salvage yard ih equipment, three Kubota dealership, four farming 1,6oo acres.
Oct 30th turned it ALL over to the kids..Really enjoy getting up when I want and doing what I want after 67 years..Life has & is good..
 
Work for the city as a drinking water treatment plant operator by night. Farm by day. Farm is built around tobacco because it's what pays the bills, but also have some corn and beans, a little cow/calf operation, large garden for my whole family. When I don't have something else to do I peddle a few things here and there.

Dave
 
I"m the purchasing manager for a transmission parts warehouse. Been there for 27 years and in the automotive parts business for 35. Only have a little more than an acre in the country, but I like to garden and fix old tractors. I have 4 of them now. Three run, the 4th one is a little A/C B that I"m restoring.
I"m on the lookout for my next project...want something on steel wheels that I can restore.
 
the direct deposit hasn't bounced yet. Forgot about my former career that i retired from the Army.
Also a caretaker,owner and operator for some old oliver iron
 
The city of Henderson, but I work at the South plant out in the county. If you ever drive up the Pennyrile Parkway I am at the ice cream cones across from the power factory and beside the chicken factory.

Dave
 
30+ years with mining company doing heavy industrial and heavy equipment maintence plus operating it sometimes too. Then when I retired I was asked to take over the equipment maintenence shop for the local golf course. Tractors, mowers and occasionally a golf cart or two. Interesting to repair golf carts using computer read out diagnostics. Also trying to keep current on honey-do lists. Gene Davis
 
Probably hauled some of our products. Paint Dept. supervisor at Morbark Inc. See our web site at Morbark.com. You may be surprised! Auto collision and paint industry most of 35 yrs , self employed and dealerships. Auto restorations and now antique tractors on the side.
 
I'm sure a lot of you guys saw the pictures I posted earlier this week, But I am a "Residuals Management Engineer" as they call it at work.. But in plain english, I spread what would be known as biosolids (or wastewater treatment sludge.. or poop.. call it whatever you like).

I figure it's as close to being the farmer I always wanted to be I'll ever get.

Brad
 
Kinda hope the daughter can sell some of the old Olivers and toys to put herself though college!
 
Now that's weird. I do the same thing for a living in West Tn. Where are you located and what company do you work for? doorman
 
Doorman,

Were you referring to me? If so, I work for a company called Synagro (Or as the farmers here call it SHXX-N-GO.. cause we come, we spread, and we go just as fast as we came).

Brad
 
T_Bone<---45yrs ASHREA HVAC&R Design Engineer, Indoor Air Quality Engineer, Energy Management Engineer, AWS-CWI, Certified Welder with 33 different Certifications, Retired, designing & troubleshooting multi-million dollar control systems.
 
I work for BMC Select a building materials supplier. I designed trusses for 20 years and I now work in the door shop doing service work. I grew up on a farm with dairy cows. Now I just play at my MIL taking care of things on small acreage. I do various froms of construction and remodeling also. As they say Jack of all trades and master of none. Steven
 
I'm a Quality Auditor for a major forging co. We make forgings for Dana Corp. Spicer driveline Div. Track assembly and under carriage parts for Caterpillar Corp. Mining components for Joy Mining Corp. and sundry other parts for the auto industry. Wife and I raise chickens every year for our own use. Use to keep a few cows but gave it up as it interfered with our other job of camping. May get cows back after retirement.
 
Nope quit late last summer I think, just a month or two after he got his license. He got a job at American Water in Evansville IN. Worked out better for him it was closer to home and he didn't have to fight the bridge every day.

Your not look'n to move are ya? We had a guy give his notice this week. He has been say'n he was leaven for the five years I have been there, guess now he means it.

Canmer, that's along 31E some where ain't it? I used to know a girl from the greater Hiseville-Bearwallow area not too far south of there I'm think'n.

Dave
 
I work closely with a lady in HR out there who chairs the county Relay For Life; good people; good company.
 
i see two other correctional guys on here. That"s a surprise. Correctional Case Manager (cross between a guidance counselor and a social worker) and Hostage Negotiator. Part-time farmer and gunsmith.
 
IT(Computer) Systems Design and engineering for a large retail corporation by day. Desk / meetings :(

Volunteer administrator / exec director for local railway museum off hours ... includes everything from landscape maint to bldg maint to grants & fundraising. Get to run trains occasionally :)
 
Tech support. Visual Basic Programmer. Bank Consultant. Retired 13 yrs ago. Farm kid who went to college. USF
 
Retired from the US Government after 43 years that includes 2 years in the Army during the Korean War. We did engineering tests on all of the vehicles used by the Army. Some of them include M1A1 Abrams Tank, M60 & M48 Tanks, lots of trucks and the Gamma Goat Truck. The Humvees
started in 1980. They now testing the MRATS.

We did drawbar pull, cooling tests, fuel consumption and slope performance up to 60% slope. It's almost too steep to walk up. Hal
PS: I was helping my dad with the morning milking until I was drafted.
 
Hydraulics engineer.

Wife and I bought the family farm from her Uncle. I use the weekends to keep up with the vegetation. Rent out the acreage to the young farmer in the next valley.

Have a Ford 640 that I am getting "re-habbed" as a daily runner.
 
House & Structural Mover
Antique tractor mechanic
Magneto Rebuilder
Rough & Finish Carpenter
Roofer
Furniture maker


Jack of all trades and master of none!! :lol: :lol:
 
Taught jr high for one year and coached footaball. Went into Air Force to fulfill ROTC commitment. Flew fighters and taught new guys. Now I'm a MD-80 Captain for a major airline. 40 acres in Iowa with some horses and some hay ground.
 
University Professor
St. Cloud State University
Manufacturing Design ProE 3D-CAD
Manufacturing processes CNC, and conventional
Electronics
Environmental resource management
Transportation design
Plastics
Graphics
 
I work for Tristate Automatic Doors. They are located in Jackson, Ms. but I cover West Tennessee, Western Kentucky, and North Mississippi. We are a Horton, Record and Besam distributer. e-mail open if you want to chat sometime. doorman
 
Was landlord, TV electronics, Electrician and Contractor for GM and myself. Now cutting grass is a hard job. Don't spend all your life working unless y ou have to. Too soon oldt und too late schmart.
 
5 years in manufacturing , 17 years as a machinist in the railroad industry ,then 12 years in forestry and now the last 2 years for the city in public works traffic division hopefully retired in 10 more years.
 
Kinda been a jack of all trades in my career:

Pinsetter Mechanic 2 years
Welder 1 year
Machinist 2 years
Truck Driver 6 yrs
Fighter Jet Aircraft Mechanic 24 yrs (IAM Local 776)
 
Electrical contractor, part time farmer. We still farm the family farm, hay, corn and black angus cattle. In my contracting buisness, I "specialize in agricutltural applications". We do alot of work on grain bins/handling equipment.
 
Turned wrenches for over 25 years on trucks, ag equipment and industrial equipment. We raise cattle on the old family farm.
 
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